Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
She smiles wide and wicked at me as she lunges toward me working on a leg sweep maneuver. I should not have said that, she’s up to something now. We get through our warm-ups and attack reviews. We al broke off to get water before separating to spar in one-on-one and two-on one groups.
Lil makes sure to move us as close to Sam, Oliver and Mateo as we can be. I breathe a little easier. I thought she was going to put us in front of the twins and try and start sh*t with Kaley and Kevin. Although we are close enough to be within earshot of them.
“Hey, f*ckers. It’s been a while, who wants to throw down? Midge here has been bored with one on one since she was five.”
None of the three of them hide their amusement. So, apparently, talking to Lil is okay, they were just banned from talking to me. Good to know. She should have thought that through, but I guess that’s the point she hasn’t really thought this all the way through, just reacting in the moment to things that make her mad or feel left out.
“I’ll go.”
Sam chimes in. “I cannot wait for you to see how fast I am, Little Bit. It’s been two years, baby.”
He steps up to me.
“Hey, watch that baby sh*t. She’s not your baby. Stick to ‘Little Bit’ like a good boy.”
Oliver walks up and slaps him on the back. “Actually step back, I want first crack at her. It’s been too long.”
***”Oliver! What are you doing?”***
****You are not the only one that can have fun with this. It’s my birthday Bitty, just go with it.”*** Then he winks at me.
11***
***”That is not fair. You can’t pull the birthday card.”*
***I can and I will. I’m making a point baby.”***
***”Oh so you can call me baby, but no one else can?***
***”Yep!”*** He pops the ‘p’.***I am the ONLY one who is eighteen and has any right to even suggest you might be my mate and I am just as sick of all this fake bullsh*t as you.”*** He lunges at me fast and have to dodge his massive tattooed arms. I tuck and roll under him then jump up to be ready for the next thing he throws at me. ***”If what I say and do makes people think you might possibly be my mate, so be it. We can’t live without you, we have proven that time and time again. Some of us just need reminding.”***
****Some of us are under a spell.”*** I quip back.
***”You were quick to pinpoint them.”***
***”You were quick to sound jealous.”*** I try to distract him. My mind did go directly to the twins when he was talking about all of them. It’s just because they are going to be the hardest to break and they have been at the forefront of my mind since we have been able to break everyone else free.
Another swipe, this time he gets my leg and tosses me on my back. A loud whoosh of air leaves my lungs and I am dazed for a moment. Oliver leans over me, I let him get closer, then wrap my arms around his neck and my one leg around his waist, which almost doesn’t fit, and use the other to propel us around so I am now sitting on him about halfway up his torso. I have one of his arms pinned above his head. He has my other arm pinned to my side. I am at a standstill. He could easily flip us with his leg power. I am just too short for that, my knees barely hit the ground on either side of him.
He extends the arm I am holding above his head, which brings me closer to his chest. Nowl see he let me switch positions, because he still has control. I can’t let go of his arm. He’ll just grab me and pin me. He slides me so I am holding all of my upper body weight in the extended arm in front of me. I won’t be able to sustain this for very long at all.
I am so close to him now, our noses are almost touching. I narrow my eyes at him and he just smiles that pearly white, smile that says he’s all trouble but totally worth it.
**** Tell me the truth. Was that day really your first kiss?”***
***”Why is that so important to you?”*** I deflect.
***”Because the first time someone kisses you, it should not be to save your life. You deserve something like that to be special.”
So… There has been an issue with the formating that I use to differentiate between the chatracters talking out loud and when they are mindlinking.
The mindlink should be bold and in italics, and while it looks like that in the author center and all of my views, it does not seem to be that way for your view as the readers. It is something that is being worked on. In the mean time I will place’ *** ‘ at the beginning and end of the mindlinked dialogue just so it makes sense for context.
There are many times when Sky is talking to someone and mindlinking others. Typically with Lil when they are badmouthing someone. As the story reaches the end this will be mor crucial.
Let me know if it is helpful or just distracting.
Thanks for reading and sticking with me this far into Sky’s journey! I appreciate all of you.
***”Yes…It was. But with the brand I don’t have any desire to do anything like that. Nothing romantic crosses my mind. ***”Would you still feel it though? If I kissed you right now, would you be able to understand what it means?”***
***”I don’t know. I’m sure people have tested it. Lil actually said she and Wyatt did.”***
****I would like another chance to show you what a first kiss should be like.”***
“***
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.